Greg Cote gone from The Herald

[the storm]

Apparently a round of layoffs hit yesterday & he was permanently retired. Says he’ll continue with his podcast. Tough times at The Herald.

 

[Hoyacane1620]

Apparently a round of layoffs hit yesterday & he was permanently retired. Says he’ll continue with his podcast. Tough times at The Herald.

They eliminated 30 positions. Michelle Kaufmann was also let go.

 

[Hobokane]

Good riddance— that rag (like so many others) has reached the end of the line….

 

[Fart Keyhole]

Good riddance— that rag (like so many others) has reached the end of the line….

Greg Cote is one of the good ones.

 

[Hobokane]

He should just go into substack like Dave Hyde did— never had a beef with him, but that is a miserable newspaper all around

 

[Tinman64]

The days of the newspaper companies if you will are dying

 

[Jassid82]

They had a **** good run. Nothing to be ashamed of if the paper is falling on hard times.

 

[Jassid82]

**** even Nikes run is coming to an end.

 

[Garnacho]

He’ll be better off without them

 

[OrangeBowlMagic]

Cote's the man. SFL legend.

 

[Ironmanfootball]

Apparently a round of layoffs hit yesterday & he was permanently retired. Says he’ll continue with his podcast. Tough times at The Herald.

This is a forced retirement, he's in his 70's, go play pickleball

 

[FtMyersCane]

I send him a message once correcting his grammar and he sent me a really nice personal response thanking me. Always been a fan.

 

[stormsurge]

does anybody here read the herald? paper or online? i haven't this century.

 

[NicKane]

Apparently a round of layoffs hit yesterday & he was permanently retired. Says he’ll continue with his podcast. Tough times at The Herald.

Not surprising, nobody reads newspapers anymore. That business has gone the way of the dinosaur.

 

[JayCane20]

Greg is the one that does the big Canes Baseball write-ups, correct? If so, major disappointment.

 

[skyman]

**** even Nikes run is coming to an end.

@Rellyrell @TheOriginalCane

 

[AtlAtty]

Not surprising, nobody reads newspapers anymore. That business has gone the way of the dinosaur.

Every one makes this comment because it is, of course, very true. But I think we have lost a lot with the loss of traditional print media (I could care less whether it is printed or digital). The reason being that legacy media did more long range, long running stories that required investigative journalism. Remember the days of 3 or 4 part stories? Stories that were investigated for months and months.

We have some of that still with people like Pablo Torre and the work he did on the Clippers salary cap circumvention, but we have mostly lost investigative journalism in favor of headline journalism which reports the news but never looks below the surface.

Would a story like Watergate even be exposed anymore? Which company in new media has the resources AND the willingness to let journalists chase a story for months? I think we have lost as much or more than we have gained.

 

[DemCanes10]

He was still working there?

 

[TheATLCane]

Paywall model doesn’t work

 

[arizonacane]

Newspapers are dead!